The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-09-13
"FLORIBEL."
The DISARMAMENT of a Society
Organized to Ostracize Young
Men Who Smoked, Chew
ed, Or Drank.

Boston, Mass, Sept, 7.-(Corres.
pondence. )-Msny years ago some
one said "a girl is strange creature
when she will, she will, you may de
pend on it, and when she won't, she
won't, and there's the end on it."
presume girls are considered odd be
cause of their many peculiarities. IL
saw that a girl, no matter how strange
she may be, or seem to be, is mo-
purely original in her many vocation'
and fancies of life, is nothing les'
than
WRESTLING WITH TRUTH"
/ don't think. if you were to travel
this world over, you could find girl
who has no object in view.
Southern girls, though American
born, have the tastes and manners OF
the English. Their chief aim is to be
more ornamental than useful, yet
many of them are plucky and will
work.
Western girls devote most of their
time to some kind of employment.
They are as highly cultured as those
of any CLINE, but do moi
seem to enjoy society" with
the same spirit as those living
near the broad Atlantic. have
learned. and from good authority
too-newspapers-that western girls
are
GREAT PUGILIsTs.
The nearer one gets to the Pacific
coast the more liable be or she is tc
get slugged, because these girls will
fight anything of a combative nature,
from Jumbo elephant to our little
John L. Tue girls of st. Louis are
not much on the fight, but they are
way up-high up ON the lash. Severa
men having been "done up" in thai
city recently by the fair sex. Il
must have been grand spectacle tc
see the gentry's hat and coat tail fyins
one way, and the auburn tresses and
ivory handled whip of the fair one fly
ing in another. Those who received
the lash must have needed it, because
girls are ''sure they're light before
they 60 ahead"
Kansas City has more scrapping
matches than any city west of the
Mississippi river. A friend of mine
told me short time ago about fight
which occurred there last spring.
didn't hardly believe the report, for
had not seen anything in the paper:
about it. She maintained it was on
the quiet, so was satisfied that she
had told the truth.
Eastern girls are wide awake, and
are foremost In almost everything
They have an eve to business in the
commercial world and an eve to hap
piness in the spiritual world. They
have their likes and dislikes just tht
same as other girls, and one of theil
dislikes is life of singleness. They
have resolved therefore not to be ole
maids
EUssY OLD MAIDS.
They want to be married some day
and married they will be, if it takes {
long ten years to find a Mr.. Man
They are very particular in thei
choice. Lords, Dukes, Princes AM
such like, seldom if ever capture on
of these girls. There are many goo,
men with titles, and very many ba'
ones. Our girls want men with brain
and principles, not fools with money
because these are soon parted.
Three Boston girls went over t.
Newton, N. j., last fall to visit friend
and remained there until winter Sc
in. Brfore they left they found gu
the Jersey girls we're in a pretty bat
fix. Very nearly all the young mer
in Newton were given up to som,
habit. They either smoked, chewed
or drank. OF course the girls would
never give thought of marrying one o
these young men, so they hardly knew
what to do. When the Boston girl
were acquainted with the facts the,
proposed the organization OF q socle
ty to ostracize the young men. Ii
two weeks time q society was orga
nized, and the names of all those VIII,
INDUCED in tobacco or strong drinl
were put on the black list.
The young men soon learned o
this society, and its purposes, 80 the.
organized a club. resolving to hav'
nothing whatever to do with any o
its members or sympathizers.
The girls got along nicely all winter
They entertained many lady and gen
tlemen visitors had their musical re
citals, debates, etc.
The boys had an equally jolly time
There were always lady visitors a
Newton, 90 they were not altogethe